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Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

by Dana Frank

The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.

The Women Incendiaries

by Edith Thomas

The long out-of-print classic about women in the Paris Commune of 1871.

Women and the American Labor Movement

by Philip S. Foner

A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.

Women and Socialism (Revised and Updated Edition)

by Sharon Smith

A socialist perspective on women's oppression and liberation, exploring the connection between women's rights and equality for all.

"When the Welfare People Come"

by Don Lash

Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

Undivided Rights

by Marlene Gerber Fried, Elena Gutiérrez, et al.

Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.

Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

by Peter Shapiro

An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.

Sexuality and Socialism

by Sherry Wolf

An indispensable history and contemporary guide to the struggle for authentic sexual equality and liberation.

Rosa Luxemburg

by Paul Frölich

The definitive partisan biography of Rosa Luxemburg, as only a contemporary and comrade could know her.

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

by Betsy Hartmann

With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.

On My Way To Liberation

by H. Melt

How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a gender nonconforming body moving through the...

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

by Aja Monet

Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

Men Explain Things To Me

by Rebecca Solnit

A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

Marxism and the Oppression of Women

by Lise Vogel

Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.

Marx on Gender and the Family

by Heather Brown

Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.

How We Get Free

Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

by Angela Y. Davis

Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

Feminist Freedom Warriors

Edited by Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty

A collection of compelling narratives highlighting the struggles of feminist warriors whose voices are too often marginalized.

The Essential Rosa Luxemburg

by Rosa Luxemburg

A new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's most important works.

Emma

by Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the US.

Disposable Domestics

by Grace Chang

This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

Clara Zetkin

by Clara Zetkin

Essays and speeches from 1889–1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.

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